"When we transcend one level of truth, the new level becomes what is true for us. The previous one is now false. What one experiences may not be what is experienced by the world in general, but that may well be truer. (Ven. Nanananda)

“I hope, Anuruddha, that you are all living in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes.” (MN 31)

I studied Classical music for quite a while, but I'm going to display my ignorance regarding popular styles by admitting that, I am only familiar with three of those names offhand. I picked Harrison (assuming he's the George Harrison from the Beatles).

Haha you certainly got me excited with that title...I was expecting a question of cosmic significance or something, and then I saw 'travelling wilbury' and although the name sounded familiar, I didn't actually know what that meant

Edit - just looked them up on Wiki. Very interesting. I'm actually trying to avoid listening to too much music at present, unless it's slow, soothing music that won't get stuck in my head (which sadly rules out most popular music). But someday when I'm less sensitive to music, I might have a listen.

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Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

My parents have biased me for Petty, as was a staple for us when I was growing up. The rest of these guys are barely more than names to me.

MichaelThe thoughts I've expressed in the above post are carefully considered and offered in good faith.

And friendliness towards the world is happiness for him who is forbearing with living beings. -- Ud. 2:1To his own ruin the fool gains knowledge, for it cleaves his head and destroys his innate goodness. -- Dhp 72

Reductor wrote:My parents have biased me for Petty, as was a staple for us when I was growing up. The rest of these guys are barely more than names to me.

Sigh. I guess you can't help it that you were too young to know Bob Dylan when his work and his whole approach was new and vital, inspiring everyone in the counterculture and nearly everyone in the music scene.

"When we transcend one level of truth, the new level becomes what is true for us. The previous one is now false. What one experiences may not be what is experienced by the world in general, but that may well be truer. (Ven. Nanananda)

“I hope, Anuruddha, that you are all living in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes.” (MN 31)

There's a clip on the DVD I have round here somewhere of Bob singing an early take, which demonstrates part of his creative process. The line in the clip:

Tweeter took his gun away and treated him unkind

comes out in the final take as a much more menacing:

An ambulance rolled up - a state trooper close behindTweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind..

Mike

There's more now, Mike!

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

There's a clip on the DVD I have round here somewhere of Bob singing an early take, which demonstrates part of his creative process. The line in the clip:

Tweeter took his gun away and treated him unkind

comes out in the final take as a much more menacing:

An ambulance rolled up - a state trooper close behindTweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind..

Mike

There's more now, Mike!

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

"When we transcend one level of truth, the new level becomes what is true for us. The previous one is now false. What one experiences may not be what is experienced by the world in general, but that may well be truer. (Ven. Nanananda)

“I hope, Anuruddha, that you are all living in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes.” (MN 31)

I voted Tom Petty because he has a long list of songs that everybody can love. I appreciate Dylan's place in history and his impact on culture, but I don't really enjoy listening to his music. Harrison gets an A for character and ability with a six-string, but he wasn't the best Beatle, and he wasn't the best Wilbury. However, I'm thinking about changing to Roy Orbison because right now he only has one vote. He's cooler than the other side of the pillow.

Dylan, with Petty coming in a close second. But I haven't really heard the other guys much, so I'm biased. I saw a documentary about Dylan a few years back, he just hangs out at his massive ranch now somewhere in the USA. He seemed a little gone though, you can sort of tell his lifestyle may have got to him.